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From: sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS NEWSGROUP?
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Date: 14 Jun 91 02:51:16 GMT
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In article <1871@culhua.prg.ox.ac.uk>, sdpage@prg.ox.ac.uk (Stephen Page) writes:
> However, I would add that I am thinking of turning off this gateway, as
> I am getting very fed up with throwing out messages on synthesizers.
> 
Sigh.  It would be very sad if this newsgroup went away, especially due
to the traffic from synth-heads.  I'm giving some thought to some grass-roots
action here.  Every synth posting I see (that doesn't belong under this
group's charter), I write back and ask them to post on rec.music.synth 
instead, and if their site doesn't have it, complain to their SysAdmin!
Anyone want to join me?

> What has happened to all the good people who promised summaries of articles
> they had read, conference discussions, etc., on the original aims?

It's ironic.  You set up a newsgroup for researchers, but researchers 
don't have a whole lot of time for the net.  I'll bet alot of us read
comp.music and have ideas but are too busy composing, experimenting, doing
DSP or whatever to draft a thoughtful posting.  Every day I see something
I'd love to followup on, but if I want to get my dissertation done by
December...
-- 
Greg Sandell
sandell@ils.nwu.edu